new beginnings.

so tomorrow marks the 1st day of my internship cum final year, and I have no idea what to expect. lets hope that everything turns out to be the best it can be. InsyaAllah.

Amateur 3D Architectural Model Post Processing~

please do excuse the nerdy title, just excited to share some work I did last night, helping a friend touching up a Rest House 3D model, constructed in SketchUp, rendered using Artlantis~
And the final tweaks were done by me in Photoshop, which is nowhere close to perfect but I had a lot of fun doing it.
Most of what I did is adjusting the brightness, colour balance, as well as adding some elements and ligthing using brushes,etc.
I made a total of 9 edits, but here are 4 I like the best, comments are most welcome :D

foggy future

its frightening,
to think that im going to turn 22 this year
and still so clueless about where my life is headed to.
so much uncertainty,

desperately need to get up and walk away from my comfort zone.


oh and here's a gun for you.

good night :)

no more wasting precious time

Here's wishing this holiday would be productive one. Happy holidayssss [cc:UIAans ;)) ]

ver 2

a slightly more demure pallette. :3

retro-ish poster.

Referenced from HERE.

post-submission.

smlm submit. pastu coma atas katil lebih setengah hari.
and now dah relaxed skit, semua perasaan dtg menyergah. terkejut hati.
hepi,sedih,confused,kecewa,macam2 lagi.
kne check in psychiatric ward agaknya.
HM.

this is a real word. seriously.

24hour difference.

shows how powerful a reference can be,
this was done yesterday without referring to anything.

and this one done by referencing to a proper Poring sprite :D

inspired by lovebirds~

                                                                              lovebirds are so pretty~ *_* 

a lovebird. by ~S-P-Liana on deviantART

stamped!

inspired by the idea of a stamp to mark the completion of.. anything. which in turn encourages people to complete more, well, stuff. *basically a ripoff of charlieissocoollike's idea*

I referred to a couple of tutorials on the web, *three of them to be exact* and came up with my own little formula of how to make a stamp in Photoshop, and in my case, Ps CS3.

The result!!

le stamp~

le stamp in action~

here's the links to the tutorials i referred too :)

numero uno!
numero dos!
and quatres!

so..

well, the result of my 2nd semester of my 1st year as an Applied Arts and Design student was, in a word, disappointing.
I'm not really shocked, however i am deeply bummed by the digits on the result slip  that seem to mock my existence.
seriously.
i think i know what went wrong.
its pretty much the same as last semester's issues. but I haven't got the slightest clue on the 'fixing it' part just yet.
here's hoping that i do. and soon.
anyways, Alhamdulillah, i am grateful.
you have to be grateful for everything, but, it doesn't mean that you have to be easily satisfied.
no sir you don't.
always aim higher, and pray to Allah during good times and bad, insyaAllah. :)


(bonus!)
*true story, as real as it gets*


me: mami..dah tau dah result
mami: hmm
along:ak taw result hang!
me:diam ah bohonggg
me:erm,aa,sama ja ngan last sem..*.*
mami:hm


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hm.


me : *awkward face* (inside ; D':)




p/s: kan best kalo dia at least ckp, "xpa, usaha lagi" , "at least xturun kan?". hmmm

compisition comes into play.

Another fun photoshop tutorial completed! wooohooo~
this one is from PSDVault, they have some pretty cool tutorials over there so do check it out :)

Basically this tutorial acts as a guide to creative composition, and plays mostly with layer effects, transformation and brushes. The instructions are pretty well explained but you do have to learn the basics before attempting this one because it might skip some tiny details.
Compared to the tutorial, I used more layer masks than the eraser tool because the eraser, being a permanent action, is not as flexible as the layer masks.
Layer masks allows you to alter the appearance of an image but it can easily be deleted or adjusted to your own preferences without worrying about permanent damage :D ( if anyone's interested I'll try to explain further in future entries ; drop a comment! )

So here's the final result from the artist at PSDVault

And here's mine! :)

Resources used ;

1. model stock
2. bird1 
3. bird2 
4. bird3
5. cant remember where I downloaded the brushes from, it was so long ago LOL.

today's graphic practice.

my Photoshop's been collecting dust since this holiday started so its about time I tackle a fresh and fun tutorial~

this one's from Abduzeedo *super awesome tutorial galore*, inspired by the poster for Burlesque, which is coincidentally one of my favourite movies. *Christina Aguilera sexily belting out burlesque themed songs,hell yeah!*

so here's the actual movie poster, the final result of the tutorial, and my own result. Comments much appreciated :))

can you guess the meaning behind 910910 ;)

IU- Peach * song crush *

IM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS SONG ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY.
IU's just soooo adorable and her angelic voice + this melody = too much AWESOME <3
give it a listen and you'll see what i mean :)

love is perhaps the strangest phenomenon to exist.
it can cause so much happiness one minute and leave you a soulless sobbing wreck the next.
a confusing beauty.
an addiction.

smile :)

"show me the heavens"

please let tomorrow be kind :)

misunderstood.

sometimes..
sometimes your actions are done with well intentions,
and yet sometimes that is not how it was perceived,
sometimes things we do to help,
tends to make it worse,
and when that something happens to someone who fails are consoling a friend.
well that sh*t just blows.